Lexed vs Flexed - What's the difference?
lexed | flexed |
(lex)
(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
* 1994 , Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
* 2004 , Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis
* 2007 , Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#
(flex)
(uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
(countable) The act of flexing.
(uncountable, chiefly, British) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
(countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
To bend something.
To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
To move part of the body using one's muscles.
(bodybuilding) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
* 1994 , Elise Title, Body Heat? , page 189
As verbs the difference between lexed and flexed
is that lexed is (lex) while flexed is (flex).lexed
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- Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.
- SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.
- Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...
Derived terms
* lexerSee also
* ----flexed
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*flex
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(es)- He rubbed his hands together. "Believe it or not, there was a time when I considered giving acting a go. What do you think, Miss Fox?" He flexed impressive biceps. "Would I have had a chance against the Schwarzeneggers and the Chuck Norris types?"